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How Golf Clubs are Changing with the Times: Renovations at North Oaks
Posted by North Oaks Golf Club on Jan 24, 2018 9:01:30 AM
In 2007, Tom Lehman and his golf course design group renovated the North Oaks Golf Club course to make it more challenging for low handicappers and more playable and fun for the average golfer. Now, the club is renovating the clubhouse with something similar in mind — enhancing the experience for all members and guests.
"We're doing a $4.5 million renovation of the clubhouse facility, including updating the exterior of the building, adding a couple buildouts, and re-appropriating all of our dining spaces," says Phil Anderson, North Oaks Golf Club general manager. "So, it is a fairly big overhaul in resetting the clubhouse to match up with our members' expectations for desired experiences."
The clubhouse exterior will get a facelift with new siding, all new windows and doors, a new roof, and a beautiful stone base around the entire perimeter.
"The clubhouse is 27 years old, so we're trying to get all of our infrastructures in place in the event that we add additional amenities," Anderson says.
Great Course Views from Every Angle
Members and their guests will see the new look as they enter the clubhouse and are greeted at a concierge desk. You may even notice the new view of the golf course as you walk down the hallway of the golf club.
"We really opened it up," Anderson says. "There's a lot more natural lighting. A lot more transparency. When you walk down the hallway, you are going to see the golf course immediately. We have taken down some walls to make it an engaging, open, and welcoming area. I think members will be shocked to see how much the clubhouse has opened up."
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A Dining Experience for Everyone
The new clubhouse boasts several different dining experiences for your next date night or family night out.
The "Wine Room" will provide an intimate and formal setting for business entertaining or an evening of fine dining.
If members are looking for a more casual dining experience, they can stroll down the hall to the bar and grill, which has been expanded and includes a vaulted ceiling. The bar will feature 12 tap lines (as opposed to the four it previously had) dedicated to local craft beer, and the grill will have a menu full of delectable dishes.
But the club took it a step further by creating another dining space that caters specifically to families. The area has televisions and a family-friendly tableside space that includes multi-generational activities. With the three different dining options, Anderson says everyone will feel welcome in the clubhouse.
"Whether it's the Vikings game on Sunday, or gathering with family, friends, or someone from our community for lunch, we want to be your go-to spot because you are going to have all components you could ever want here," Anderson says. "We can provide a bar and grill-type setting on the outdoor patio, a family dining experience with the kids, or a romantic wedding anniversary in the wine room.
A Great Patio View
The outdoor patio, the crown jewel of the project, will double in size to accommodate 110 people for pre- and post-round viewing. It will expand toward the course, include additional gas fire pits and create a stadium-type viewing area around the 18th green, which sits in a natural bowl.
"We like to think we have the best golf club patio view in the Twin Cities," Anderson says.
The entire project is on schedule and is slated to be finished by Memorial Day weekend (with one of the dining spaces opening sometime before that). And since none of the renovations are on the course, it won't affect the course's opening this spring. However, by the end of Spring, North Oaks Golf Club will have a new look all around.
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4 rounds of the couplet.
Add a 5th round to the squat and core couplets.
You may perform the couplets in any order. You should know, if you stack those burpees and v's directly on top of the push/pull couplet - you will suffer. I put the leg couplet in the middle on purpose. It'll give those pushers a bit of a break. Some of you don't need breaks. If you are one of these - storm it!
Don't have strict pushups? Do them from your knees. Can't do all of them? Do as many as you can and snake the rest. Begin each set with as many strict pushups as you have.
There are 65 pullups in this workout. Any time we go over 50 pullups in a workout, there are torn hands. To prevent this, don't go too deep into that tingle. You know the one. The one where your hands start to hurt and you think to yourself, "Nah, they are OK. I can do a couple more reps before they tear." These are famous last words, man.
That squat/run couplet needs to be done at fairly high speed. As always, don't sacrifice form, but keep those reps coming quickly. We mainly put this couplet in there to break up those upper body moves (the pushes) and to spike your HR.
Burpees and V-ups are a viscous abs combo. You don't always realize how much you use your abs to do burpees. Pre-fatiguing them with v-ups will illustrate this point well. It should also put your HR in the sky.
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This piece originally ran two years ago. It's worth a re-read as your homeschool friends head back into another school year.
"Oh, you homeschool your kids? You must be so organized. I wish I could do that, but I don't have the patience."
It is something every homeschooling parent has heard at one time or another. I don't know how other parents react, but when someone says it to me I usually smile and gently correct the misconception: no, I'm really not that patient, nor am I particularly organized, but I believe in what we're doing so we muddle through the best we can.
I first started homeschooling my children in 1999. At the time it was less common than it is now, but widespread enough that I have never experienced the extreme level of suspicion directed at some of my friends who started even longer ago than I did. Instead, I think the feeling with which I am most familiar as a homeschooling mom is isolation. The isolation is both physical, as the constant presence of children strictly limits a homeschool mom's freedom, and mental, as homeschoolers are still very much a fringe group. Even as homeschooling has become more common, homeschoolers remain the oddballs walking around town with their school-age kids at 10:00 a.m. on a Tuesday. We're the ones who may live in a top-notch school district or attend a church with a day school but who, perplexingly to some, choose to teach our children at home. We're the ones you may find still in pajamas at noon not because we're living a life of leisure but because adequate time for personal grooming can sometimes be hard to come by.
Being among other homeschoolers does not necessarily decrease the sense of isolation; on the contrary, it may sometimes accentuate it. One would think a homeschooler would feel most at ease with fellow homeschoolers. But there is a vast range of homeschooling philosophies and approaches, and those who have chosen one of those approaches as the organizing principle for a large segment of their lives are bound to be passionate about it. In discussions with one another homeschoolers, like anyone else, sometimes fail to put the best construction on each other's words and actions. Misunderstandings happen, feelings get hurt, and defensive walls go up among those who ought to be most supportive and understanding of one another.
In our continuing series on friendship here at SDMW, we have been looking at ways that we can be better friends to our sisters in the faith. Like anyone else, we homeschooling moms need friends, but finding them is not easy. We aren't running into other moms as we drop our children off at school in the morning or volunteer in the school office. We don't have full-time careers or day jobs that afford opportunities for office-based friendships. We find it hard even to get away to meet a friend for a cup of coffee. Often our best friends are in our computer, which means we rarely get to see them. So when we find a flesh-and-blood friend who seems to "get" this thing known as homeschooling (or who at least wants to), we prize her like a discovered treasure. If you know someone who homeschools and would like either to understand her better or to overtly support her as a homeschooler, here are some suggestions for consideration.
1) First, please keep in mind that even as homeschooling has become more mainstream, most homeschoolers have at one time or another experienced questioning, suspicion, or downright condemnation for their choice to homeschool. As homeschoolers we know we are seen as different, and we understand that sometimes questions are just that--questions. But at other times opprobrium masquerades as curiosity. Bear with us if we are not in the mood to answer all your homeschooling questions. When you meet someone whose child is in public school, do you routinely ask her why she made that choice; how she knows the child is learning everything he needs to learn; and oh, yes, what about socialization? All of these questions could legitimately be asked of a traditional schooler, but they usually aren't. It can be tiring as a homeschooler to have to repeatedly defend our parenting choice in the area of education. We deeply appreciate those who don't make us do so.
2) On the other hand, as homeschoolers we also don't like to feel as though we are being put on some sort of pedestal. We are not supermoms in crisp white aprons, kneading the bread with one hand while stirring up science experiments with the other. More often than we would like to admit, our house is a mess, our kids' clothes mismatched, and our lesson plans an afterthought. I actually look at traditionally-schooled families with some measure of awe, amazed at their parents' ability to get everyone up and out the door, looking halfway decent, every morning. You think we're organized? Some of us are. Then there are those of us who homeschool in part because we don't want to manage the paper trail that comes with traditional schooling (cough, cough). Yes, homeschooling is hard. But so is traditional schooling. They are just hard in different ways. What we have in common is that as parents we are all trying to do what is best for our children. And no matter which way you look, that is one messy proposition.
3) If you have homeschoolers in your church or neighborhood, encourage your children to include them in activities, birthday parties, and the like. It's not just the homeschooling moms who can sometimes feel isolated, but their children as well. Children in the neighborhood or at church who attend school together are naturally drawn together through shared experience. Homeschoolers are sometimes unintentionally overlooked or excluded. If you are planning an event or activity to which everyone in your child's grade is being invited, invite the same-aged homeschoolers as well. Such gestures are honey to a homeschool mom's heart.
4) Share your skills with us. If you are an excellent cook, seamstress, auto technician, carpenter, chess player, photographer, scrapbooker, computer expert or something else, you may find in one of our children a sponge that is thirsty for your expertise. When that happens, you may also find that sharing your passion with someone who is anxious to receive it motivates and brings you joy. One of my favorite things about homeschoolers is that they see teachers everywhere.
5) Be alert to opportunities that may be beneficial for your homeschooling friend or her family. That free tennis clinic you saw advertised in today's newspaper could be a gold mine for a homeschooling family who can't afford a tennis class.
6) Because most homeschool families live on a single income, they are often on a tight budget. If you have the means and would like to loosen your friend's budget buckle a bit, consider a donation to the cause. Ask her what her favorite homeschooling catalog is and purchase a gift card for it. Other possibilities are gift cards for her grocery store of choice, the local book or craft store, a favorite restaurant, or a family activity like bowling.
7) Offer to take the children (particularly younger ones) for a little while so your friend can have a break. Better yet, offer to watch them at her house so that she doesn't have to pack up and transport all their paraphernalia to yours! Then send her out with explicit instructions to pamper herself (and maybe slip a gift card to Starbucks in her hand as you shove her out the door).
8) Most of all, just be a friend. Ultimately, whether we as women homeschool or not, are married or single, have a large family or are childless, have a career or stay at home with the kids, we all want the same thing: someone to listen to us, someone to love us even when we aren't being very lovable, someone to gently tell us the truth when we need to hear it, and someone to point us to the Cross when we are having trouble even lifting our heads to look for it. While I think there are specific things each of us can do for our friends who find themselves in certain situations, the fundamentals of friendship don't vary much. A hug; a prayer; a pat on the hand; a smile; a shared tear; a sigh; a nod; and simple, knowing silence may go as far or farther than all of the suggestions above. In fact, sometimes the best thing you can do for your homeschooling friend is forget, for a while, that she's a homeschooler.
I love this article! Thank you so much for your insight on the issue. I was wondering what homeschool program you use? I am considering homeschooling our two daughters, but it's becoming overwhelming to try to find a worthy program that isn't overpriced or lacking in some significant way. There are so many programs available nowadays and I'm becoming discouraged. I would greatly appreciate your input. Thank you in advance!
Mary, so glad you liked the article! To answer your question, I don't use any one program. I have been homeschooling for 18 years now and over that time have used a variety of materials. I am what as known as an "eclectic" homeschooler. At times we are more structured, at times less so. Some of my favorite publishers, though, are Saxon and Teaching Textbooks for math, Apologia for science, and Sonlight for history and literature. I have also used some of A Beka's materials. If you want to read more about what we have done I have a number of homeschooling posts on my personal blog, www.roundunvarnishedtale.blogspot.com. Hope this helps!


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Among essentially the most prevalent electrical wiring thoughts is on how to wire a change. When applying switches in your house is quite uncomplicated, wiring 1 might not be that easy for everybody. An ON-OFF switch is in fact quite simple to wire. You will find different kinds of switches, but for this example, let us say that you are setting up a single-pole toggle switch, an extremely prevalent swap (along with the most straightforward).
You will find three hues of wires in a normal single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and green. Splice the black wire in two and join them about the terminal screws - a single on leading and the other over the base screw on the switch. The white wire serves as being a supply of uninterrupted ability and is particularly generally related into a mild colored terminal screw (e.g., silver). Link the inexperienced wire on the ground screw of the change.
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Myeloma is a rare form of cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow of those affected. Despite being rare, there are a few different treatment options out there that can help you to overcome myeloma and start to work toward a normal life again. There are some symptoms to watch for like easy bleeding or easy bruising, fatigue, weight loss, nausea, loss of appetite, and pain in the bones. You may attribute these symptoms to other things, but if they persist, you certainly need to see a doctor. This type of cancer is going to be diagnosed most effectively with a blood test and perhaps a bone marrow test as well. Your doctor will then determine what stage the myeloma is and then determine the best course of treatment.
There are a few different types of treatment to choose from, but the first and most common is going to be radiation therapy. This is often used for solitary plasmacytomas or solitary cancers that are found. It may also be used when there are only a few of them, but most often it is not going to be used on those that do have a great deal of cancer in their system or that are of a much further progressed cancer. For those that have early stages of cancer this treatment may not be a huge issue and can help to make it easier to get treatment and get started on the road to recovery.
For those patients that have more advanced cancers, it may be necessary to take chemotherapy medications. In most cases, those with active myeloma are going to go through chemotherapy treatment with a combination of two or three medicines. The medications chosen depend on the patient themselves and things like their kidney function can make a difference in whether or not they are able to take the treatment. Drugs like bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone are used in combination to help treat myeloma cancer. Your doctor will determine the treatment that is going to work best for your particular type and stage of cancer so that you can get the most effective treatment possible.
For those that have a donor match, bone marrow transplants may also be an option at some point as well as stem cell therapy. These are treatments that are reserved for the end of course treatment because often after a bone marrow transplant other treatments are not going to be effective and are not going to help treat cancer anymore. Bone marrow transplants must be exact matches and can be very painful and time-consuming but ultimately life-saving. If you do have end-stage cancer and this is a treatment option, it may be helpful to extend your time. For those that have what is called smoldering myeloma, you may not need treatment at all.
No matter what type of cancer you have, it is always best to get a better picture about what types of treatment there is and what options you have when it comes to the most effective treatment for you. Getting early treatment can mean the difference between a treatment that works and one that does little to help treat your cancer and get you better.


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Van Graan FURIOUS with Harlequins 'unacceptable' targeting of young Munster star
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Ben Healy is an injury doubt for Munster ahead of next weekend's visit to Clermont after he picked up an injury in the second half of his side's 21-7 victory over Harlequins, with Johann van Graan blasting the visitors for a number of late hits on the promising young out-half.
Healy entered the fray on the hour mark to replace JJ Hanrahan at No10 with the contest finely poised at 13-7. The 21-year-old then copped a late hit from Harlequins No8 Alex Dombrandt, who was subsequently shown a yellow card by referee Pascal Guazere.
Healy subsequently stepped up and blasted over the 50-metre penalty before converting Gavin Coombes' late try. The Tipperary man was also barged off the ball by Quins prop Joe Marler, leading to yet another Munster penalty. And Van Graan was furious with the treatment dished out to Munster's rookie No10.
Munster got the job done against Harlequins but Johann Van Graan is not happy. Pic: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile
'We're very worried about him, he took two late hits there,' said the Munster head coach after last night's tempestuous encounter, which featured three Harlequins players being sent to the sin-bin.
'We're going to get him checked out now. It was quite clearly a tactic from the opposition to hit him late and certain things in the game are just unacceptable. He's now got injured because of that.
'It was a tough game for the referee, I thought he did really well. We also gave away one cynical penalty (when Stephen Archer was shown a yellow card for an illegal tackle on Danny Care), but certainly from a foul play point of view, there were one or two cards out there.'
Keith Earls of Munster is tackled by Ben Tapuai of Harlequins during the Heineken Champions Cup Pool B Round 1 match between Munster and Harlequins at Thomond Park in Limerick. Pic: Seb Daly/Sportsfile
In wet and windy conditions at Thomond Park, Munster ground out a hard-fought victory to get their European Champions Cup campaign off to a winning start to maintain the province's unbeaten run this season.
'We're very glad of the win,' said Van Graan. 'It was difficult conditions, opponents who didn't go away. We would have loved to use more of our opportunities but any win in Europe is a good win.
'We knew it was going to be a real 23-man effort and we created chances that we didn't use, but we're very happy with our impact players.'
The province now face a daunting trip to Stade Marcel- Michelin next Saturday to face a star-studded Clermont side, but Van Graan was relishing the looming challenge.
Ben Healy was targeted by Harlequins, says Johann van Graan. Pic: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile
'It's the first time I'll personally be going to Clermont,' the South African added. 'They're one of the European powerhouses if you look historically, some big tussles between Munster and Clermont. If you looked at them yesterday, they were excellent the way they started against Bristol.
'It's a massive challenge ahead for us and that's what this competition is about, to challenge yourself against the best teams. It's great that Munster and Clermont will go out with their top teams because this is what the competition is about. You always want to play your top teams in this competition.'
Meanwhile, Tadhg Beirne, who was named man of the match after an excellent display at lock, hailed the resilience of his side following their hard-fought win in Limerick.
'I think a lot went into it, with us internationals coming back but the lads here had been playing phenomenally well and some lads were unlucky not to keep their place so there was a lot of pressure on ourselves to step up and fit into the way that the lads have been playing. 'I think we did today.
Defensively, we're pretty proud of how we came out today. We are disappointed to concede that try so we'll have to look at that and hopefully we'll be able to fix it.'
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It may seem inappropriate to compare Caesar Augustus to George Washington, that is, Rome's first emperor with a president who rejected any idea of kingship. Both men, however, made strikingly similar statements, as their death approached and they left their beloved governments in the hands of other men. Their thoughts were of eternity, not only in a land beyond, but here on these earthly shores.
Augustus wrote this in his final life statement (Res Gestae Divi Augusti) inscribed on the bronze pillars of his tomb, believing with the rest of Rome that Rome could last forever. His immediate successor, Tiberius, overwhelmed by the bloodbath which broke out during his reign, famously declared: "After me, the deluge." And so ran the course of Rome until its inevitable collapse, as its august foundations proved anything but permanent.
In his farewell address, George Washington says to his fellow countrymen that having passed together through the years of discouragement and rivaling passions and shifty fortunes, it is their constant support which has made the dream a reality.
American still stands, yet the party factions which our first president warned against nearly tore the country apart, beginning with his immediate successors (the Adams and Jefferson political war), and up to a Civil War, and up to today.
This is in no way meant to be a gloom and doom assessment of America. It's a simple fact, verified by all of the history before us. Nothing earthly lasts.
There is another man who who knew this well, and who advised to go ahead and render to Caesar what is his, for Caesars come and go as do their empires, so long as we give God's what is his. That man is Jesus, and to him belong some of the most sobering and practical words in the history of man.
"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away" (Mt 24:35).
Jesus is very clear, but do we take him at his word? How much time do we actually spend with his words, instead of the passing this which surround us. Even the best Catholic commentators on social issues aren't an adequate substitute for, simply, time we spend with Christ's words.
So why do do we believe that? The historian Charles Norris Cochrane is helpful in assessing why the Romans did.
"They truly believed it was possible to attain a goal of permanent security, peace and freedom through political action, especially through submission to the 'virtue and fortune' of a political leader. The Christians denounced this and… traced this superstition to the acceptance of a defective logic, the logic of classical 'naturalism', to which they ascribed all the characteristic vices of the classical world" (Christianity and Classical Culture, 18).
Who of us hasn't seen this in our own day, the "naturalism" of which he speaks, that if we let everything simply be as it is, the world will get better. But it simply never has and never shall. T.S. Eliot was once taught by Henri Bergson, before rejecting his philosophy as the source of most modern error, a progressive movement of history where it's simply bound to always get better. For Eliot and for all Christians, humankind is a bit more cyclical than that, still glorious in its saints and sages of each age, still stumbling into the same sins, all stemming from the one we call original.
I love America, just not her headlines. I love her history, even as I learn more of its complexity. I love her the more that I meet many of the faces living in this land, all of us who have received from her more than we could ever pay pack, which leads to the classical virtue of piety. But I don't pretend she will last forever on this earth, as neither will I. We are both here for a time. And so for a time, I stay involved, but always with one foot very much on the other side of the sea, in Rome. Not the one which has long since dissolved, but the new Rome which is truly eternal, the Church, because She is the Body of Christ, Christ's one true love, and so mine as well. America has given me shelter and provided for all of my needs on earth. The Church has given me heaven already, in the grace of the Son of God, whose words shall not pass away.
So, without further ado, I bow out of any further commentary, at peace with God to guide the world as He wills, and I hope to spend more time listening to His words. The Lord knows we need that more than all else, in times like these, or in any time at all. In this land of ours, or in any land at all.


either question, then you just may find that perfect baby name in this list.
I'm not into naming my kids after celebrities, but I wouldn't avoid a name I like just because it is a celebrities name.
Some great names but I don't want to do the movie star name thing.
I like these names better than the rock stars!


What is Service triangle or The service marketing triangle?
The service marketing triangle or the Service triangle as it is commonly called, underlines the relationships between the various providers of services, and the customers who consume these services.
As we know, relationships are most important in the services sector. The service triangle outlines all the relationships that exist between the company, the employees and the customers. Furthermore, it also outlines the importance of systems in a services industry and how these systems help achieve customer satisfaction.
As the name suggests, the service marketing triangle can also be used to market the service to consumers. The marketing completely depends on the interaction going on between the customer and the service provider. We will look at each of these interactions in detail, and also read on how to market to your customer based on the interaction.
There are 6 main relationships in the Service triangle. And based on these relationships, there are three ways to apply marketing tactics.
One of the critical thing is to communicate the service strategy to the customers. Most of the E-commerce companies are nowadays employed in convincing the customers to buy from their portal only. For this buying, they are communicating various service advantages which the customers have.
Communication of the service strategy to customers is important to build the trust of customers and hence to convert the customers to be loyal to the company.
Another important relationship in the service triangle is that between the company and the employees. Imagine an Airline where the flight attendants themselves are frustrated with the company. You, as a customer, will land up with the poorest services.
Hence, training employees, building value and trust, and empowering employees are some of the ways that the company can make their employees a positive influencing force for the customers.
To keep customers happy, efficient and productive systems need to be developed. Imagine your bank in the 1960's where everything was done by paper. If you wanted to transfer money, you will have to fill many forms, and the recipient had to fill many forms. Ultimately it was a tedious process.
However, due to advanced systems, nowadays you can not only transfer money to others sitting at home, you can practically do 80% of the banking work sitting at home from your laptop. That's the importance of systems in a service marketing triangle.
Although building systems are important, these systems should be most useful to customers. Taking the same example of banking systems above, it is surprising that even today when you go to a bank, there is a queue. Look at retail stores. There's always a big line to check out.
The interaction between customer and system is critical to build the service brand. Taking the example of E-commerce systems, when the customer is promised various service advantages, and when he fails to return a product due to system errors or logistics errors, he becomes dissatisfied with the service.
For a company, it is important not only to build systems, but ensure that the systems comply to the customers and give excellent experience to customers.
Not only do systems leave customers frustrated, they also leave the employees frustrated. Imagine a McDonald's where orders taken at the front desk are not reaching the kitchen. Or imagine a service center, where although you have entered a grievance, the employee is not getting your complaint and hence not calling you. Ultimately it is the employee on whom you are going to get angry!!
In one of the consumer durable companies i know, the systems were top of the line, but they had so many processes with regards to outstanding and inventory, that a simple order processing took 20 minutes. This same company had at least 1 lakh dealers and distributors. So imagine the continuous delay in order processing and the pressure on employees due to this system issue. The system was working excellently, but it was creating friction between the employees and the system.
Both, Employee motivation, and the empowerment of employees depends on the type of system you hand over to your employees. If the systems are very good and your employees are able to make good use of it, you will get very happy and satisfied customers.
The employee to customer interaction is also known as the "moment of truth" or "critical incidents". A single customer can become dissatisfied with the way the employee treated him. Or that single customer can buy a lot of material from the same store, because the employee treated him or her like a king or queen.
That's the difference your employees can create when they interact with customers. There are companies which are high in the customer satisfaction index, just because their employees are well-trained and are empowered to take their own decisions. More importantly, these employees are ingrained with the habit that "Customer is king".
Once your employees starts treating the customer as if they are really king, the whole service triangle gets completed, and you will get the best results from all processes employed.
How to market with the service marketing triangle?
Holistic marketing is most used when internal marketing is in effect. An advertising firm always tries to keep its own employees motivated. They are given a hell lot of parties and outings just so that they are in a jovial mood. And they need to be in a jovial mood because the rest of the times they are using their creative brains very hard to give the ultimate service to their customers.
Furthermore, these same advertising companies empower their employees to take the right decisions in front of customers. This empowerment goes a long way in building motivation and confidence.
And that's what internal marketing based on the service triangle is all about. Building confidence and motivation in your employees, so that they build excellent relationships with the end customers and the company gets the money.
Marketing from the company to the customers. This is the most common type of marketing which we, as customers, encounter in the market. The various types of service marketing can be advertising, sales promotions, public relations, direct marketing, or more prominently, internet marketing in today's age.
The marketing which happens on a retail store, in a restaurant, in a mall, in a bank, or in any format where the customer comes in touch with the employee, is known as interactive marketing. This marketing within the service triangle happens between the customers and the employees.
Interactive marketing is also a strong way to influence customers. It is most commonly used to help customers come to a decision with regards to their purchase decision. If a retail executive has received orders that he has to liquidate stock of Samsung, he will only tell you the positive things about samsung and try to convert your decision into buying Samsung.
The various forms of interactive marketing include personal selling, servicing the customer and interacting with customers on social media or other such interactive platforms.
In essence, there are two main differences between the services sector and the manufacturing sector. One is that the services sector needs to be more flexible for their customers. And second is, that this flexibility brings stress, and a services guy should be able to deal with stress.
The service marketing triangle is an excellent representation of all the interactions which happen within a services sector, and accordingly how different forms of marketing can be used based on the interactions happening.


This year has gone by in a blink of an eye again! I feel like I was in New York just recently but at the same time it feel like it's been a long time. Lots of things have happened, and somehow I ended up in Hong Kong. I've met a lot of amazing people along the way, and tried many new things. I've been really happy and really depressed (but I still got through things). And now I'm here, yet another New Years Eve countdown to attend, and New Year to look forward to. But before that I just want to take a look back at 2013 and remember all the amazing things that happened.
Even though there's lots going on in New York City, it can still be lonely sometimes living alone. And it's always nice to have someone looking forward to you coming home. I got my first pet hamster "Mochi". She loves to stuff her cheeks full of food, and always climbs to the top of her cage to greet me when I come home. I always wished I was hamster size so I could cuddle up with her. She's so fluffy!
January was also the time of year where people don't shop a lot, so the store didn't have many customers. I only worked 3 days a week or less, so I had more time. I often made Taiwanese style Chicken & Mushroom soup! Reminds me of my mom's cooking, but not quite as good. It's nice to have a little taste of home.
It snowed a lot in February around Valentines day. Central Park was all frozen and covered in snow. It's the most amazing view I've ever seen of the city. Central Park seems like the best spot in the city where you can actually enjoy peace and quietness. A stroll around the park in the snow was very refreshing.
I also became obsessed with desserts because I found a new favorite place. It's called "The Spot". There's one in Korea Town and one in the NYU area. They make amazing Green Tea Lava Cake and Banoffee. I was going there almost every week!
March was always very sunny. But don't be fooled by the sunniness. It was still freezing cold. Not much happened in March. Stores were still empty and mostly I just stayed at home and continued my job search in the US. Didn't get much luck though, even though I visited a good handful of job agencies. They probably think I look 16 and I'm faking my ID.
In April, my cousin from France visited me in New York! I took her all around the city from the cheesy tourist spots like Times Square and Rockefeller Center to Second Hand clothing stores near NYU area.. we had a really fun time. Even though the city is hectic, I never get tired of the amazing view. The funniest moment is when we were eating at a Japanese restaurant and we were ordering some plum wine. The waiter asked for our IDs, and she pulled out a French Passport (she looks 100% Taiwanese by the way), the waiter was definitely confused.
At last summer is creeping in! I became really into house music and dj-ing after moving to New York. So I had to go to my first outdoor EDM concert - Electric Daisy Carnival. A lot of people wear rave bras, so I decided to make one myself. I found some really good quality plastic daisies from a shop around 28th street. Got some adhesive glue, a white bra, and made it in about half a day. (The thing is that, it also got destroyed in about half a day). EDC was amazing though. I could listen to house music all day long!
I also go to a symphony at least once a year. This was my first time in Carnegie hall! The music was absolutely amazing. I don't have words to describe live classical music. I grew up with instruments, like the Piano, Flute, and Violin, so symphonies will always have a special place in my heart.
The store also picked up more pace in May as we started to get more collaborations with various brands and designers. My favorite one was the Laudrée collaboration. Macaroons just make me happy!
June was some of my last days in New York City. I couldn't stay any longer because I didn't successfully transfer my temporary visa to a more permanent working visa. I had so much fun working with everyone! It's like a big happy family! Thank you Leah, for being my dancing and gossip buddy! Without you I wouldn't know who to share my worries with! Thanks Steven for watching my back at work and entertaining me with your perfect Cantonese accent! Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris, I miss your extra high highfives. Tima I miss your big lovely smiles. Omar, Tiff, and Jeremy you guys are the most amazing bosses ever. Abdur, sorry for getting your name wrong at the beginning, I will never get it wrong again I promise! Isaiah, you still can't fire me! Robin, keep growing that amazing hair. And to everyone else, sorry if I didn't mention your name specifically, but I still love you all! Big hugs and best wishes to everyone. "I hope to see you soon :) "
Finally I got to visit Taiwan. I haven't been back in over a year. I miss all my friends and family, and the delicious food. I was traveling all around on my motorcycle, and visiting everyone around the island. Thanks to the High Speed Rail it's possible to do this in a short amount of time. It feels great to be home. I had a reunion dinner with my elementary school classmates. Some I haven't seen since! It's crazy how the paths of our lives have changed so much. But when we sat down after 11 years, it felt as if nothing has changed.
This is our family's cute fluffy little hamster. He is the most adorable little thing! He's so sweet, he'll let you hold him and won't try to run away or bite you. He'll just look at you with his big round eyes and fall asleep. Unfortunately he left us in around October. But he'll always be an important part of our family. People often say that hamsters or guinea pigs or other small animals aren't as good as dogs or cats. To be honest though, these little cute fur balls have the biggest personalities, way more than you can imagine. Everyone of them are different. Some are shy, some are bold, some are energetic, and some might be a little mischievous. I would never trade my guinea pigs or hamsters for a cat or a dog.
I also met some amazing friends in Hong Kong! Everyone is loads of fun and has great personalities. I've had so much fun after arriving at Hong Kong. The very drunk wine tastings with a million jello shots, outrageous beer games with ping pong balls flying everywhere, warm Thanksgiving & Christmas parties. Alison, Thanks for being an amazing host for the Thanksgiving party! Carmen and Chloe we need to go get jello shots in Singapore sometime. Ross, be careful the haunted reindeer will find you in Singapore. Ewan, keep your beer cup and ping pong ball. PK thanks for introducing that beer game, it's awesome. Janet we need to go shopping sometime! Jess, where have you goneeeeeeee? Minsi, next time you fall asleep I'll make sure you get home. Richard, I want to hear more stories about Taiwan ;) And to everyone all together, when are we gonna play that game again?? I will continue to do my best to be the full-time photographer (According to Alan) And of course, thanks Graeme for being amazing and making me laugh all the time!
I actually played it the second time and ended up with 27m each.
Besides tons of video games and dressing up, I also visited Macau for the first time! It was actually very interesting. It looks like Vegas in some ways, but it's a lot more Chinese than I thought. The casinos were always packed full even at late night times. That's perfect for me since I wanted to see everything except for casinos.
In November I was confirmed with my first full-time job offer! And I went out with a nice drink with the team that I'll be working with very soon. It's awesome that I'll be working with all girls! I heard there's only 1 guy on this team.
Hong Kong also couldn't wait for Christmas to come. Since people don't celebrate Thanksgiving here, after Halloween it jumps right into Christmas. The decorations in Hong Kong are spectacular. The buildings facing Victoria Harbour are filled with Christmas lights in patterns visible from across the harbor. There are 5 story tall trees, Rirakkuma trees, Disney trees, and Hello Kitty Trees. I spent a whole day running around looking for Hong Kong Christmas decorations. Took me longer than I thought!
December was a very sandy Christmas. I was in Phuket, Thailand for the holidays. It was amazing! At first I was thinking, Christmas should be in the snow!! But Christmas in the sand is really relaxing. Hong Kong was getting pretty cold, so a nice warm break in Phuket was perfect. The sand was so soft like flour, and water was so clear you could see the bottom of the ocean while fishes swam around you. I got to do many things I've never done before, like snorkeling, jet skiing, playing with tigers, and parasailing. It's definitely the best way to spend the holidays.
Even though it has been really tough at times. Especially when I was pressured with my visa expiring in the US and not being able to find a job. But I got through all the tough parts. The good times were more amazing than I every expected. I'm so fortunate to live such an interesting life full of adventures and challenges. 2013 was amazing, and 2014 will be even better.


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The Particle and Astrophysical Xenon Detector, or PandaX, is a dark matter detection experiment at China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) in Sichuan, China. The experiment occupies the deepest underground laboratory in the world, and is among the largest of its kind.

Participants
The experiment is run by an international team of about 40 scientists, led by researchers at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The project began in 2009 with researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shandong University, the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (zh), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Researchers from the University of Maryland, Peking University, and the University of Michigan joined two years later. The PandaX team also includes members from the Ertan Hydropower Development Company. Scientists from University of Science and Technology of China, China Institute of Atomic Energy and Sun Yat-Sen University joined PandaX in 2015.

Design and construction
PandaX is a direct-detection experiment, consisting of a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) detector. The use of both liquid and gaseous phases of xenon, similarly to the XENON and LUX experiments, allows the location of events to be determined, and gamma ray events to be vetoed. In addition to searching for dark matter events, PandaX is designed to detect Xe-136 neutrinoless double beta decay.

Laboratory
PandaX is located at China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL), the deepest underground laboratory in the world at more than  below ground. The depth of the laboratory means the experiment is better shielded from cosmic ray interference than similar detectors, allowing the instrument to be scaled up more easily. The muon flux at CJPL is 66 events per square meter per year, compared with 950 events/m2/year at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, home of the LUX experiment, and 8,030 events/m2/year at the Gran Sasso lab in Italy, home to the XENON detector. The marble at Jinping is also less radioactive than the rock at Homestake and Gran Sasso, further reducing the frequency of false detections. Wolfgang Lorenzon, a collaborating researcher from the University of Michigan, has commented that "the big advantage is that PandaX is much cheaper and doesn't need as much shielding material" as similar detectors.

Operational stages
Like most low-background physics, the experiment is constructing multiple generations of detectors, each serving as a prototype for the next.  A larger size allows greater sensitivity, but this is only useful if unwanted "background events" can be kept from swamping the desired ones; ever more stringent limits on radioactive contamination are also required.  Lessons learned in earlier generations are used to construct later ones.

The first generation, PandaX-I, operated until late November, 2014.  It used  of xenon (of which  served as a fiducial mass) to probe the low-mass regime (<10 GeV) and verify dark matter signals reported by other detector experiments. PandaX-I was the first dark matter experiment in China to use more than 100 kg of xenon in its detector, and its size was second only to the LUX experiment in the United States.

PandaX-II, completed in March 2015 and currently operational, uses  of xenon (approximately 300 kg fiducual) to probe the 10–1,000 GeV regime. PandaX-II reuses the shield, outer vessel, cryogenics, purification hardware, and general infrastructure from the first version, but uses a much larger time projection chamber, an inner vessel of higher purity (much less radioactive 60Co) stainless steel, and a cryostat.

The construction cost of PandaX is estimated at US$15 million, with an initial cost of $8 million for the first stage.

PandaX-II produced some preliminary physics results from a brief commissioning run in late 2015 (November 21 to December 14) before the main physics run through 2018.

PandaX-II is significantly more sensitive than both the 100-kg XENON100 and 250-kg LUX detectors.  XENON100, in Italy has, in the three to four years prior to 2014, produced the highest sensitivities over a wide range of WIMP masses, but was leapfrogged by PandaX-II. The most recent results on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross-section of PandaX-II were published in 2017. In September 2018 the XENON1T experiment published its results from 278.8 days of collected data and set a new record limit for WIMP-nucleon spin-independent elastic interactions.

The next stages of PandaX are called PandaX-xT. An intermediate stage with a four-ton target (PandaX-4T) is under construction in the second-phase CJPL-II laboratory. The ultimate goal is to build a third generation dark matter detector, which will contain thirty tons of xenon in the sensitive region. In July 2021, a publication was made, searching for dark matter using results from the PandaX-4T commissioning run.

Initial results
The majority of the PandaX experimental equipment was transported from Shanghai Jiao Tong University to China Jinping Underground Laboratory in August 2012, and two engineering test runs were conducted in 2013. The initial data-collection run (PandaX-I) began in May 2014. Results from this run were reported in September 2014 in the journal Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy. In the initial run, about 4 million raw events were recorded, with around 10,000 in the expected energy region for WIMP dark matter. Of these, only 46 events were recorded in the quiet inner core of the xenon target. These events were consistent with background radiation, rather than dark matter. The lack of an observed dark-matter signal in the PandaX-I run places strong constraints on previously-reported dark matter signals from similar experiments.

Reception
Stefan Funk of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has questioned the wisdom of having many separate direct-detection dark matter experiments in different countries, commenting that "spending all our money on different direct-detection experiments is not worth it." Xiangdong Ji, spokesperson for PandaX and a physicist at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, concedes that the international community is unlikely to support more than two multi-tonne detectors, but argues that having many groups working will lead to faster improvement in detection technology.  Richard Gaitskell, a spokesperson for the LUX experiment and a physics professor at Brown University, commented, "I'm excited about seeing China developing a fundamental physics program."

References

Experiments for dark matter search
Neutrino experiments

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The expanding pipeline for juvenile idiopathic arthritis can be attributed to the increase in its prevalence. One of the major factor that stimulate the growth of pipeline and research is that the cause of juvenile idiopathic arthritis is not known. The juvenile idiopathic arthritis occurs mostly in children before 16 years of age. Since the disease occurs only in children, so the safety and efficacy concerns of the drugs is given preference so that it can be treated without any side effects. Some of the other factors driving the pipeline growth include, raising awareness of health issues among children and less number of drugs available for therapy against juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Currently, one in 1,000 child in the U.S. suffers with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Females are more susceptible to juvenile idiopathic arthritis than males.
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis can be symptomatized as swelling, joint pain, tenderness, stiffness and fever that last for approximately more than 6 weeks. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, mostly occurs when body's immune system erroneously attacks its own healthy tissues and cells, which result in inflammation, pain, heat, redness and swelling. Researchers have studied that, either environmental factors or genetic tendency of child act as triggers for the occurrence of the disease. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis affects mostly joints in knees, hand and feet. Sometimes, severe complication can occur in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis such as eye inflammation. Currently, no medical test is approved for diagnosis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Physicians diagnose juvenile idiopathic arthritis by examining the medical history of the patient and the result of other tests that help in ruling out other morbidities.
In November 2016, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was in the process of introducing a monoclonal antibody, sarilumab, which is an interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor antibody for the treatment of children and adolescent patient with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Sarilumab is under Phase II stage of clinical development. In August 2013, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG introduced a monoclonal antibody, tocilizumab, which is under Phase I clinical development. Tocilizumab is an interleukin-6-receptor antagonist. In March 2013, Pfizer, Inc. is introducing a drug Tofacitinib which is under Phase III stage of clinical development. Tofacitinib is a janus kinase inhibitor that interrupt the signalling of multiple cytokines. In November 2014, Novartis AG is introducing a monoclonal antibody, canakinumab, which is under Phase III stage of clinical development. Canakinumab is a monoclonal anti-human interleukin (IL)-1β antibody which is of immunoglobulin G1/κ isotype and binds to the human IL-1β, thereby blocking its interaction with IL-1 receptors.
In 2011, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. collaborated with Shire Plc for the development and commercialization of M923, which is a proposed biosimilar of Humira (adalimumab) but the collaboration was later terminated. In June 2010, F Hoffman-la-Roche announced that RoACTEMRA (known as ACTEMRA outside Europe) is highly effective in improving the signs and symptoms of systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, which currently has no licensed treatments. RoACTEMRA is also well tolerated in children with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis and has a safety profile similar to adults with rheumatoid arthritis.


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The importance of the Nyemo-Padum-Darcha road
Zangskar is a secluded valley in Ladakh that remains inaccessible for a major part of the year and its development lags behind the rest of the region. Road connectivity is an important ingredient to facilitate development in a region. In many ways, roads determine the future of an area. For instance, a mule tract converted into a vehicular road by the Indian Army from Baltal to Gumri and Zoji-la Top enabled the Indian Army to launch a surprise assault with M5 Stuart Light Tanks on 1 November, 1948 and recapture the pass from Pakistani soldiers. This highlights the importance of a vehicular road, especially in Ladakh. It took another decade before a vehicular road connected Leh with Kashmir and the rest of the country in August 1960. This road was constructed under the state budgetary plan. The construction of internal link roads, including the Nyemo-Padum road along Zangskar river, were proposed in the state's Second Five-Year Plan (1956-1960). Nyemo-Padum road, was the first priority of Ven. Kushok Bakula Rinpoche, who was a Minister in the J&K government at the time. Construction of many roads started with a token budgetary allocation in this plan.
One person who deserves special mention in this regard is Shri Sonam Dawa Dimbir who oversaw the building of many roads in Ladakh despite budgetary constraints during his tenure as an engineer. After retirement, he served as Executive Councillor (EC) in the First Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh. At a public meeting he addressed as an EC at Pologround, Leh in 1996, he claimed that he would extend the budgetary allocation made for one kilometre of road to build five! He had a reputation of holding contractors accountable and making every rupee count.
The Indo-Chinese War in 1962 changed the developmental discourse in Ladakh. It led to the induction of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) for the development and maintenance of major roads in Ladakh from the Public Works Department (PWD). It was the PWD that had first proposed the Nyemo-Padum road and received sanction in the Third Five-Year Plan (1965-1970). A single lane rough road between Nyemo and Chilling was built during this plan period. Around this time, an influential legislator from Kashmir toured Ladakh and gave an adverse report about the Nyemo-Padum road to the state government, which cancelled funds for this road project. These funds were redirected to the Kargil-Padum road under the Fourth Five Year Plan (1970-1975). The Nyemo-Padum road stopped at Chilling. Due to meagre fund allocation, there was negligible progress on the Kargil-Padum road in the plan period of 1970-1975. The state government finally made adequate allocation in its Fifth Five Year Plan (1975-1980) due to the efforts of the then PWD minister, Shri Sonam Norboo.
The 234-kilometre Kargil-Padum road over Penzi-la has historical significance. The Parkachik-Padum section was completed in a record time of two working seasons as a member from each household in Zangskar was involved in the construction of this road in 1978-1979. Community heads were given the responsibility of managing wages and work execution. A tipper and a jeep crossed Penzi-la to enter Zangskar valley and reach Padum in November 1979. This marked the beginning of a new chapter in Zangskar's history. In the summer of 1980, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama used this road for his first visit to the valley. This was a good omen and marked the dawn of prosperity for Zangskar. The linkage of Zangskar with the outside world through a vehicular road was the result of extraordinary public participation. The credit must also go to then Executive Engineer Shri Sonam Dawa Dimbir and his deputy Babu Tharchin Nomochok along with Zangskari leaders such as Gyalsras Nima Norbu, Pikongma Ka Namyal, Nawang Tashi etc. who mobilised the public. The road alignment to Penzi-la is an engineering marvel created by Babu Tharchin who surveyed, designed and supervised the construction of this road.
The Nyemo-Padum road, which was abandoned in the 1960s, was all but forgotten as attention was focussed on the Kargil-Padum road in this period. In 1980, Shri P. Namgyal was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) from Ladakh and started discussions within Government of India about the importance of the Nyemo-Padum road with an extension to Darcha. Then in 1988, during his second term he became junior Minister for Surface Transport, Government of India. Under his leadership, the ministry sanctioned resources for the Nyemo-Padum road at an estimated cost of INR 36 crore (INR 360 million) and the state government was asked to cover 50% of the cost. This news received wide coverage in the media and sent shockwaves through the corridors of power in the state government. I was a Member of Legislative Assembly from Leh at the time and my counterpart from Kargil opposed this road. I tried my best to explain the importance of this road and its benefits to Kargil and Leh as it would provide a shorter route to Manali while also supporting development in Zangskar. Unfortunately, the project faced widespread opposition and I received no support from any quarter. Thus, the allocation file for 50% of the cost was 'lost' in the Civil Secretariat. Unfortunately, P. Namgyal lost the general election in 1989 to the Indian Parliament and the road project was forgotten once again.
P. Namgyal was once again elected as MP from Ladakh in 1996. He once again took up the Nyemo-Padum road with Government of India, which in turn recommended it along with other projects for a developmental project grant to Government of Japan. The Japanese government deputed a team from Japan International Cooperation Agency in late 1996 to visit Ladakh and study the Nyemo-Padum road. The team carried out a cost-benefit analysis and argued that the Nyemo-Padum road would only be used by a few thousand vehicles each year, while a four lane-New Nizamuddin bridge over Yamuna river in Delhi would cost the same and be used by a million vehicles daily. The New Nizamuddin bridge was built in two years by February 1998 and named Indo-Japan Friendship bridge. The Nyemo-Padum road remained incomplete.
The road has been one of the main demands by the people of Zansgkar along with helicopter service and district status. This road would provide all-weather road connectivity to the valley and the distance is significantly shorter than the Padum-Kargil road.
In the wake of the 1999 Kargil War, Government of India established the Kargil Review Committee (KRC) on 29 July, 1999 to identify issues that need to be addressed to avoid such challenges in the future. The KRC was chaired by Shri K. Subramanyam, the then Chairman of National Security Council Advisory Board and included three experts as members. The KRC completed its report in five months. During their visits to Ladakh, the committee members interacted with various Ladakhi leaders. During my conversation with them, I put forth several points including the need for all-weather road connectivity for Zangskar, which echoed the demands of Zangskaris led by Ka Namgyal Pekongma. All the people who interacted with the KRC underlined the need for secure all-season road connectivity between Ladakh and the rest of the country. The Nyemo-Padum-Darcha road is the most viable option in this regard. This road will reduce travel time between Leh and Manali to nine hours from the current 19 hours. A four-km tunnel under Shingo-la can further reduce the travel time. Most importantly, this road will provide all-weather access to Ladakh with minimal intervention where other alternatives require longer and multiple tunnels.
Based on KRC's recommendations, the Nyemo-Darcha road was formally handed over to BRO in 2001 and it has been under construction since. However, road-work has progressed at a very sluggish pace. In this period, the road reached a few kilometres beyond Chilling at the threshold of a 30-km challenging rocky stretch between Chilling and Lingshed Tokpo. On the other side, the road from Padum has reached Lingshed Tokpo. For some reason, BRO has developed a longer route that circumvents this stretch and travels through Langru, Wanla, Fanji-la, Sumdo, Photoksar, and Lingshed Tokpo. This road traverses Sirsir-la (16,370 ft above mean sea level) and Singge-la (16,227 ft amsl) between Sumdo Photoksar and Photoksar Yulchung. While this road provides connectivity to these remote areas, it needlessly increases the length of the Nyemo-Padum road and dilutes some of its advantages. It was the completion of this route that the Hon`ble MP from Ladakh, Shri Jamyang Tsering Namgyal recently applauded in the Parliament.
It is a national failure that only 256.72 km of the total 297 km has been completed so far. The initial estimated cost for the Nyemo-Darcha road was INR 251 crore (INR 25.1 billion) with a deadline of 2012. This was revised to INR 2,276.13 crore (INR 227.6 billion) in 2019. The revised budget probably includes the proposed Shingo-la tunnel. The project deadline is now in 2025 and includes blacktopping and double-laning as a national highway, which remain a distant dream. It reminds me of the Stakna Mini Hydel Project, which was started in the late 1960s by the state government. It was to be completed in three years at a cost of INR 2.31 crore (INR 23.1 million) and generate 4 MW of power each year. The project was completed after 18 years at a cost of INR 25 crore (INR 250 million) and generated 1.5 MW of electricity for a few years before being abandoned. I hope that the Nyemo-Darcha road does not meet the same fate and meets the 2025 deadline to boost India's national interests along with Ladakh's general development, especially Zangskar.
By Tsering Samphel
Tsering Samphel is a former Member of Legislative Assembly from Leh


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The following is a story I originally wrote for the English section of the Rafu Shimpo, the Los Angeles Japanese Daily News (founded in 1903), on a freelance assignment. It was published in their print edition on November 30, 2016, and they have graciously allowed me to reprint the story here.
EL SEGUNDO, CA — When he was playing youth hockey in Canada, Devin Setoguchi's favorite player was a fellow Japanese Canadian, superstar Paul Kariya, who played for the Anaheim Mighty Ducks (now the Anaheim Ducks) from 1994-95 to 2002-03, before finishing his National Hockey League career with the Colorado Avalanche, Nashville Predators and St. Louis Blues.
Today, Setoguchi, 29, is playing for the Los Angeles Kings, hoping to complete a comeback story that would add another chapter to a family legacy in Canada that began in Vancouver, British Columbia, and includes his paternal grandparents having to survive incarceration in a horse stable nearly 75 years ago.
Setoguchi grew up in Taber, Alberta, on a farm that was established by his paternal grandparents who lived in Vancouver until World War II when they were forcibly removed from their home and community.
Indeed, Canadians of Japanese ancestry, along with their immigrant parents, were unjustly incarcerated during World War II—more than 22,000 people in all—in Canadian concentration camps, in similar fashion to the unjust incarceration of more than 110,000 Japanese Americans and their immigrant parents in American concentration camps and other confinement sites.
But the incarceration of Japanese Canadians was considerably more severe than what happened in the United States, with many incarcerees having to survive winter temperatures that plummeted to 60 degrees below zero in camps with shacks that were far more spartan than the barracks in American concentration camps, lacking insulation and in many cases, solid walls or a stove for heat. Moreover, many were forced to do manual labor and to add insult to injury, the Canadian government confiscated the real and personal property of the incarcerees and auctioned it off to help pay for their own incarceration.
Like other Japanese Canadians from the Vancouver area, Setoguchi's grandparents were first incarcerated at Hastings Park, Vancouver's Pacific National Exhibition grounds, forced to live in horse stables.
"They had to take whatever they could carry in their hands," said Setoguchi. "When it was over, everything they had was gone. Their property was all seized. That's why, where I'm from, there's a big community of Japanese farmers. A lot of them migrated there after World War II with nothing."
After camp, Japanese Canadians were not allowed to return to the west coast and Setoguchi's grandparents ended up leaving British Columbia altogether.
"They first moved to Raymond, [Alberta]," he explained. "There was no electricity. They had to walk a mile-and-a-half to a well for water. My grandparents were young, 10-12 years old, at the time. They had to endure a very tough life at that age."
"They moved to Taber and established Setoguchi Farms," he elaborated. "There's close to 12-15 Japanese families around the area. My family has been farming for many years now, growing potatoes."
Even today, many Japanese American incarcerees are unable to talk about their camp experience—it is still too painful or they feel shame. The same goes for the victims of the Japanese Canadian incarceration.
"It wasn't something that my grandfather talked about very much, and we never really pushed the subject," Setoguchi noted. "I knew where they had come from and what they had gone through. It's a pretty incredible story when you look at it and see where I am today."
"When you look at the resiliency, when you look at the pain and suffering that they endured, and how fortunate that I have it—I had a chance to grow up, and had all the hockey equipment possible that I wanted," Setoguchi added. "My grandparents would give me money during the year while I was in [major junior hockey in Canada]. My parents did the same thing. My Dad's side of the family—they paved the way, having to start from nothing. They started anew and never looked back."
Fast Start, Bad Crash
Setoguchi appeared to be headed for potential stardom in the NHL when he was selected by the San Jose Sharks in the first round (eighth overall) of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. Just three years later, in the 2008-09 season, he posted career-highs in goals, assists and points with 31 goals and 34 assists for 65 points in 81 regular season games.
But things began to go downhill pretty fast for Setoguchi after that and he fell out of favor with the Sharks, who traded him to the Minnesota Wild after the 2010-11 season, which is when he turned to alcohol.
"The drinking got bad when I was traded from San Jose to Minnesota," he said. "I held a lot of resentment towards [the Sharks]. I had signed a deal to remain in San Jose. I took less money to stay in San Jose, to stay with a winning team. But then, I was traded a couple of days later."
"I couldn't move on from that and my attitude really changed," he added. "I had a lot of negativity and a lot of hate towards that organization."
"I have nothing bad to say about them now. I mean, if you look back at that trade, they traded me for [superstar defenseman] Brent Burns. When you look at the deal, I was out of the league, and he's one of the top two defensemen in the league. But at the time, it was hard for me to cope with being treated like that."
Setoguchi fell into the same trap that many young NHL players fall victim to: complacency.
"It was me having the wrong mentality after signing a pretty good deal," he noted. "I didn't have the attitude to push for more. I didn't take the next step that I needed to move on and it just get progressively worse."
"I'd step away from the game and I was battling heavy depression," he added. "Once you get depressed, that's where it becomes the worst. The only way you cope with that—you can seek help or you can drink, and that's what I did. It got to the point where alcohol wasn't helping."
With alcohol no longer enough, Setoguchi began to use cocaine, as well.
"I got into cocaine for awhile—six or seven months," he said. "That was when I was [with the Winnipeg Jets in the 2013-14 season]. I got into that stuff and that made the depression even worse. You're staying up all night, you can't sleep, and then you're playing a game the next night."
For Setoguchi, alcohol and cocaine allowed him to avoid dealing seriously with the challenges he faced in his career.
"I knew that I wasn't in good enough shape to play," he noted. "I didn't train hard enough. I made excuses for myself. But I knew that I wasn't physically or mentally there, to play. There was a lot of guilt and shame that I was hiding behind, so I turned to drinking and I used drugs quite a bit."
"After I left Winnipeg, I had a summer before I went to Calgary, and I didn't drink much that summer," he added. "I trained hard and I signed a one-year deal with the Calgary Flames with every intention of playing sober. But that didn't last very long. As soon as I wasn't in the lineup, I drank more and more. I wasn't doing drugs anymore. I was just drinking a lot."
The Flames sent Setoguchi to their minor league affiliate at the time, the Adirondack Flames of the American Hockey League, where he suffered a sports hernia, setting him back even further.
"At this point, it was every day, a constant—get up, drink, continue drinking, pass out," he said. "I did that for three months before I went into rehab. It had gotten to the point where the last three weeks, I'd get up, I'd start with a bottle of Jameson [Irish Whiskey]. I'd be done by around noon and I'd pass out. After waking up, I'd eat something, pass out again, get up and then, drink another bottle. I did that for just over two-and-a-half-weeks."
Setoguchi had hit rock bottom. But he quickly realized that it was time to seek help.
"I went to St. Louis to get my sports hernia checked on," he recalled. "I had tried to stop drinking at that time, but I just couldn't. My body needed it. Every time I tried to stop, I'd get sick—vomiting, coughing up blood, my eyes were bloodshot. I thought, 'I'm not drinking. I'm flying back to Adirondack and I'm going to get my life straightened out.' But when I got to the airport, I was so sick that I threw up."
"I went to the bar and I ordered a triple Jameson on the rocks and slammed it back," he added. "I ordered another one, and the bartender asked if I was OK. I said, 'pour me another one.' But at that point, I broke down with so much emotion. I called my wife, my parents and the doctor. 'I'm going in for help.'"
"It got to the point where I couldn't cope, on a daily basis, without alcohol. At the same time, I had physical pain. I had a stomach ulcer and liver abnormalities, so I physically couldn't do it anymore and mentally, I didn't want to feel like that anymore."
Setoguchi sought help from the NHL Players Association, the union representing the players.
"I'm thankful for the program the NHLPA had, because I got to go to a facility that's not cheap," he noted. "The cost of one month there is a year's salary for a lot of people. You get a lot of help, and I'm really thankful for that."
Setoguchi has now been sober for about 19 months.
"The last 19 months has been great," he said. "Not many people get a second chance at this, so for me to get a chance to come back and play the game I love to play, it's something that I've dreamed about for the last couple of years, and now, I'm getting to live it."
Sobriety has also had a positive effect on Setoguchi's personal and family life.
"Since I've stopped drinking, my wife and I barely fight," he beamed. "We get into arguments, but it's done, right away."
"A lot of problems in relationships start with alcohol—fights with family members or friends," he added. "[Being sober], a lot my life and my relationships have taken a turn for the best because I'm able to shrug confrontation off and not get into it."
Setoguchi also indicated that he no longer has any desire to consume alcohol.
"It got so bad that alcohol really has no appeal for me anymore, which is good," he said. "That's not to say that there won't be struggles down the line, but I take each day as a blessing. I get to come to the rink and do the things I want to do. Staying away from alcohol has allowed me to do that."
As a professional athlete who is constantly in the spotlight, Setoguchi understands that he has to be a role model, and he very much wants his story to reach as many as possible.
"That's one of the biggest things," he stressed. "There are a lot of people who are battling depression and alcoholism. A lot of times, when you feel that way, you're really lonely and sad inside. You feel like nothing can help and no one can help you."
"One of my biggest coping mechanisms in rehab was being able to talk about my feelings and talking about sharing my problems and struggles," he added. "That really helped me, so by getting my story out there, people can read it, react to it and think, 'if he's doing it, I can do it.'"
The Comeback Story Begins
Although being sober again was his biggest challenge and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future, that alone wasn't going to get Setoguchi back on NHL ice. But after playing one season in the Swiss League to get his skills back, he returned to the United States this past summer and he reached out to former Sharks teammate Rob Blake, a Hall of Fame defenseman who played 13 seasons with the Kings, and who just happens to be their assistant general manager.
The Kings brought Setoguchi into their training camp on a tryout basis.
"When I came to [the Kings training] camp, I knew I was in tough," he noted. "I was fortunate that [veteran left wing Marian Gaborik] got hurt. That [was bad for him], but there was a chance. After that happened, Blakey said, 'you've got a chance. You just need to prove it.'"
The 2016-17 NHL season began in mid-October, with Setoguchi earning a one-year contract. Since then, he has scored three goals and has added four assists for seven points in 22 games, playing on the team's third line—he has been a solid contributor to the Kings being just one point out of first place in the Pacific Division, as of this writing.
"Rob stuck his neck out for me," he said. "I had to elevate my play into the regular season to try to prove to myself and to not let him or the team down."
"I count my blessings every day that I got a second chance, and I'm thankful for the coaching staff here, Rob Blake and [President/General Manager] Dean Lombardi, for taking a chance on me," he added. "It's been good, but I can't be satisfied with where I am. Every day, I have to prove myself because there's always guys looking to take your spot."
Being back in the NHL has also given Setoguchi's family a renewed sense of pride.
"My grandparents are some of my biggest supporters," he said. "I was out of the NHL for two years and my grandpa called me and said, 'awww, I've got to buy the NHL package again.' He stays up, even though our [home] games are on at 8:30 at night over there. They stay up and watch every game and that means a lot to me and I'm sure it means a lot to them to see me play."
©2016 Rafu Shimpo. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
LEAD PHOTO: Los Angeles Kings right wing Devin Setoguchi. Photo: Juan Ocampo/Courtesy Los Angeles Kings.
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Very inspiring story. Thank you for the insight of his life.
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I really enjoyed reading this. It really is true that you can do anything you put your mind to. Inspiring!! :)
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Canada GP: Preview - Force India
Vijay Mallya: "I was naturally disappointed to see us leave Monaco empty-handed. Operationally we were strong and the car showed good pace, but sometimes the luck doesn't go your way and there's nothing you can do.
"The positives we take from Monaco leave us feeling optimistic for Canada. The car is working well and we've made progress over the last few races. The confidence throughout the team continues to grow and we approach every race knowing we can fight for points. It's important we get back into our rhythm in Montreal and build on our strong start to the year."
Sergio Perez: "I said after Monaco that I was proud of the team and the way we raced in Monaco. We gave it everything, but it wasn't our day. It's frustrating because the car felt good all weekend. It was a shame not to make the most of this opportunity and continue our run of races in the points.
"I feel confident about Montreal. It's a track where I've had some good races and I like the challenge of the circuit. It's all about being late on the brakes and aggressive through the chicanes. You have to be precise too with the walls so close to the track.
"I think the sport needs more tracks similar to Montreal where mistakes are punished. These old-school tracks excite the drivers and fans, and usually produce entertaining races."
Esteban Ocon: "Montreal is another new track for me so I'm going to be on the learning curve on Friday. I know the lap from playing video games and being on the simulator, and I've always liked the circuit characteristics.
"Although I haven't driven in Montreal, I know the place already from my visit last year. It's definitely a cool event because everybody in the city supports the race and Canada really loves Formula One. It feels like a big party in the streets, especially on the Saturday night.
"After the bad luck in Monaco I want to get back to scoring points in Montreal. The car is getting better with each race and I think I'm fully up-to-speed now. I'm really happy with the team and the way we work together - we've already built up a good understanding and they know what I need from the car."
Tom McCullough, Chief Race Engineer: "Canada is a challenging track, with long straights and high speeds. Fuel consumption is high and the brakes are tested - with high energy and temperatures, wear is something to look after. On the other hand, the circuit is relatively easy on the tyres. We are bringing the three softest compounds to this race, yet still expect tyre degradation to be low. Good lap times come from being able to ride the apexes and the exit kerbs, but this can be risky as the majority of corner exits have walls. It's easier to overtake in Montreal than in Monaco and the weather can produce some surprises because it changes quickly. Races here tend to be very unpredictable."
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Валенти́на Никола́евна Закорецкая () — украинская советская спортсменка-парашютистка.

Биография
Закорецкая Валентина Николаевна родилась 30 апреля 1947 года в Ворошиловграде в рабочей семье.

В 1982 году окончила Луганский Педагогический институт имени Т. Г. Шевченко.

Много лет защищала спортивную честь Луганска и области, и Украины, прошла путь от начинающей спортсменки до заслуженного мастера спорта СССР. В составе сборных команд Луганска, СССР, Украины завоевывала золотые, серебряные, бронзовые медали Чемпионатов Украины, Советского Союза, мира.

С 1967 года — капитан сборной команды Советского Союза по парашютному спорту.

В 1976 году стала абсолютной чемпионкой мира.

На её счету 50 Мировых рекордов и 4 Всесоюзных.

Начиная с 1980 года Валентина Николаевна на тренерской работе.

Совершила более 11 500 прыжков с парашютом. Её имя занесено в Книгу рекордов Гиннесса 1976, 1987, 1998, как женщины-парашютистки с наибольшим количеством прыжков с парашютом в мире. Занятия парашютным спортом начала в 16 лет в группе парашютистов при Луганском аэроклубе. В 1970 году приняла участие в чемпионате Югославии. Затем последовала серия побед и наград.

С 1978 по 1984 годы Валентина Закорецкая была тренером сборной Украины по парашютному спорту. Позже — тренер-инструктор парашютной подготовки Енакиевского Государственного Авиаспортивного клуба.

Валентина Закорецкая воспитала 22-х мастеров спорта СССР и Украины и четырёх мастеров спорта международного класса.

Принимала участие в общественных движениях, поддерживала протестные акции молодежной группы СТАН,, выступала против незаконных застроек в Луганске, в районе городка ЛВВАУШ.

Умерла 9 июля 2010 года от острой сердечной недостаточности перед соревнованиями на аэродроме Днепропетровщины, где должна была участвовать в качестве судьи.

Похоронена на кладбище Острая могила Луганск.

Личная жизнь
 Дочь Юлия Закорецкая — парашютистка — стала чемпионкой Украины среди юниоров в 14 лет.

Звания и награды
 Мастер спорта СССР международного класса (1970).
 Трёхкратный чемпион мира (1970, 1972, 1976).
 Трёхкратный абсолютный чемпион СССР (1971, 1972, 1975).
 Четырёхкратный чемпион Вооруженных Сил СССР.
 Орден Трудового Красного Знамени
 Орден княгини Ольги II степени
 Почетный знак ЦК ВЛКСМ «Спортивная доблесть»
 грамоты и дипломы Госкомспорта СССР и Украины

Обладательница 50 мировых рекордов.

Рекорды
Единственная в мире женщина-парашютистка, совершившая более 11 тысяч прыжков. В 1976 году её имя было впервые занесено в Книгу рекордов Гиннеса. Вторично рекорд (10000 прыжков) был зафиксирован в Книге в 1987 году, третий раз — в 1998 году за одиннадцать с половиной тысяч прыжков. Больше неё — только у Черил Стернс (21 тысяча прыжков).
Черил является двукратной абсолютной чемпионкой мира.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Луганчанка Валентина Закорецкая: 40 суток в небе

Чемпионы мира по парашютному спорту
Выпускники Луганского национального университета
Рекордсмены Книги рекордов Гиннесса
Почётные граждане Луганска
Парашютисты Украины


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